Example sentences of "when she [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the launderette it was warm and cosy ; here Maggie made friends and fans and she had inconsequential conversations which mysteriously made her a member of the local community in a way she had never been when she had been fighting for the area 's well-being . |
| 2 | When she had been about five he had come to stay , returning from Hong Kong and , like other wise men from the east , he came bearing gifts . |
| 3 | When she had been a tiny child , and Fenna had still been a small , manageable and undemanding dragon she had , often spoken of him , to her mother who had grinned , to her grandmother who had smiled , and to her schoolteachers and friends , who had laughed indulgently . |
| 4 | When she had been little it had been easy , and now it was not . |
| 5 | When she had been little , temporary lapses and been easily passed over . |
| 6 | When she had been little , once Fenna had taught her how to fly so that she no longer went wandering off , there had been very little time when she had been left alone . |
| 7 | It had not been fully dark when she had been flying . |
| 8 | Though Maggie was eighteen , tall and attractive , she was still as much in awe of Moran as when she had been a child . |
| 9 | All through the first part of the interview — the crazy part , when she had been talking about seeing her son in the house — Hank had been telling the straight truth . |
| 10 | She shouted her innermost feelings about the hurt and anger she felt towards her mother who had ill-treated her a great deal when she had been young and in her mother 's care . |
| 11 | They had helped with their mother 's care when she had been at home , and taken part in planning her funeral . |
| 12 | Thinking of Minnie was to think of days long ago when she had been at the centre of things . |
| 13 | Until that moment Evelyn had not realized exactly what had taken place when she had been let down from over the machine . |
| 14 | The object in question was Franca 's divan bed , the one she had slept on in the upstairs spare room when she had been looking after Patrick . |
| 15 | When she had been there for about six weeks she received the Medical Superintendent 's recommendation for her bravery . |
| 16 | Had he not been she might have telephoned him instead of Nick , when she had been desperate for company . |
| 17 | When she had been able to plan her charity lunches and her dinner parties , go shopping , gossip with friends , look at her life and know that at last she had achieved all she had ever wanted , even If sometimes it was a little lonely , a little empty ? |
| 18 | In the long hours when there were no customers to show she was expected to lend a hand with some of the unskilled tasks — running errands and making tea , unpicking a seam or a hem , even sewing on a button or a hook and eye when she had been taught the proper way to do it . |
| 19 | When she had been a child , those holidays had seemed magical , a time when everyday concerns were put in perspective by the rhythm of village life . |
| 20 | What crass hypocrisy , pretending to worry about her career when she had been instrumental in its destruction ! |
| 21 | She did The Old Man and the Seal with ease , acting old , acting a big man and swimming the breast-stroke in the air , and they got it almost immediately and then she flopped on to Conrad 's knee and he laid his wine-filled head on her breast and somebody wiped a smear of black kohl from her cheek and she felt like a child again and thought of how Gabriel had nursed his little girl to sleep when she had been tired and fading away . |
| 22 | She 's a grey figure by comparison , Lee thought , muted where she had been abrasive , withdrawn when she had been a firebrand . |
| 23 | They were vague shadowy figures , rather like her own mother had been , except that she remembered them slightly better because , when she had been about eight years old , Granny Tremayne had driven her over to Newquay where they had been staying . |
| 24 | When she had been there a couple of years and I asked her how she was , she said , ‘ Pretty mouldy . ’ |
| 25 | Just when she had been on the brink of despair , one of her rich customers had given her a handsome order . |
| 26 | When she had been at art college , but that was just kids hunting for trophies , and they had n't meant a toss to her . |
| 27 | A man serving in the R.A.F. wrote to say that he was deeply indebted to the doctors and nurses who had looked after his wife when she had been admitted with a complicated confinement , which had needed an operation . |
| 28 | The poor woman had died when she had been bombed in the blitz . |
| 29 | It went back to her childhood when she had been teased by her schoolmates about her stammer . |
| 30 | It had come home to her earlier when she discovered that the Prince had sent a bouquet of flowers to Camilla when she had been ill . |